China: The Existential Threat to the U.S.

With Captain Jim Fanell

CAPTAIN JIM FANELL, Retired from US Navy in 2015 concluding 30 year career as a naval intelligence officer specializing in Indo-Asia Pacific security affairs with an emphasis on the Chinese Navy, Former National Security Affairs Fellow at the Hoover Institute at Stanford University:

• What does the ‘China Dream’ entail?
• Is a new Cold War underway between the US and China?
• Xi’s ambitions for Taiwan

(PART TWO):

• Implications of China’s Belt and Road Initiative
• Beijing’s goal to replace dollar as reserve currency
• Dangers of China’s militarization of space

(PART THREE):

• The importance of restoring the Naval nuclear deterrent
• Is the peaceful rise of China still a possibility?
• Dangers of Xi’s Strategic Support Force

(PART FOUR):

• Why we must transform the culture of how we deal with the PRC
• How to make the US Navy competitive again